I have been running two Blogs; MacAudioGuy.com and JayShaffer.com. I was having a problem maintaining both them, so my clever solution? Create yet another Blog! Crazy, you say? Let me explain.
I was having trouble posting my news from my Second life adventures on JayShaffer.com because there’s the whole,” who’s VJ Shojo and why is he posting?” and frankly I want to have some degree of separation between SL and RL postings.
So my new Blog is called SLebs, And it’s at slebs.wordpress.com And it will be my Second Life blog authored by VJ Shojo. It will feature my Second Life journal and observations of people, places and events in SL, maybe even some SLeberty interviews. So if you’re interested in my Second Life read SLebs AND this Blog.
Surprisingly, that makes this Blog easier to write because I can focus on my music, and adventures in Real Life here.

Second Life is an absurd hobby. I’m loath to call it a game, it’s far closer to being a second job. Of course, I’m a person with a strong creative work ethic and it bites me in the ass all the time. In addition to managing a formula SL virtual racing team with four drivers, I’m also building a car for the next season of Formula SL. Other projects I have going on in SL include building the Nitro Drive-in in the Motor City Sim and managing three bands for the grand opening last Saturday, DJing two two hour sets of chill out music for my usual Groove Sunday event at the Jazz Link club. So it ends up that I spend all my time in Second Life working on projects and very little time actually having fun. Hopfully soon I’ll cut back a little, and start enjoying it more and spending less hours.

As VJ Shojo, I have several ventures underway in Second Life. I started in Second Life by building a small bar to promote the Podcast Salad Podcast. Soon I started building a Japanese tea house and garden.  built a racecar and then Shojo Racing was born and I am now partnered with Exclusive Motorcars a SL car company. Then I built a house boat and a yacht and Shojo Shipworks was born. Through discussion with my friend Robina in SL I was convinced to turn the Podcast Salad Bar and Grill into a Llive music perfomance space that became the Stage at Bermuda.

Anyway to make a long story shorter, After a month of operation, I’m losing money on the venture. It was my original intent to have a manager run the place and keep acts booked and events scheduled for every night. But after a technical breakdown during a show my partner and manager decided she couldn’t deal with the personalities and the time involved with making the club sucessful.

So now I’m stuck with the club and without having the time or effort to make this thing an at least break even proposition. I’d like to keep the venue open But I’m at a loss for profitable ideas. Any comments are welcome.